Lawn Maintenance

Whether you have just redone your landscaping or if you just feel that your property is just not looking its best, come join us and have one of the best-kept houses on the block while taking care of your investment.  For less than your morning cup of coffee, you can treat your house to our premier landscaping service instead of the “cut and go” company you may have providing your service now.  Our crews don’t just cut the grass for that few additional dollars a week, we can save thousands in long-term maintenance and rebuild.  Let our crews trim your shrubs, clean your leaves, blow out your gutters, apply your chemicals, edge and weed your property and maintain your perennials--all of which are available in our maintenance package.  Get away from spending your weekend on your hands and knees in the yard pulling weeds, and start enjoying the view.  Our crews have the equipment and the people needed to perform the job right.  Give us one year and we will show you the difference, we promise you’ll never want to go back to the “cut and go” guys!  We make it affordable by dividing the yearly total over the entire 12 months of the year.  For your convenience, we can automatically run your credit card monthly to save the headache of remembering to pay the bill.   Let us help your property reach its full potential.

Lawn and Turf Care

Ever wonder why the grass in greener on the other side of the fence?  Your neighbors probably use Basics to fertilize their lawn!  All of our crewmembers are fully trained on application procedures as well as to diagnose your lawn’s aliments and remedies needed to make your lawn look its best.  We are fully licensed with the state are in strict compliance with all DEC rules and regulations.  Our turf management program is composed of the necessary applications needed to treat all conditions of your lawn as they vary with the time of the season.  Yearly, our specialists work to update and adjust our program to ensure its effectiveness.  Our staff is also sent to continue it’s training in classes, seminars, and trade-shows to ensure we keep you up to date in this ever changing environment and society. 

Seed and Sod

Sometimes chemicals and water don’t work fast enough, or the equipment installing your new cesspool and/or pool destroyed your grass, and you need to install a new lawn.  Have us help you choose whether seed or sod is right for you and your property.  Whichever one is being used rest assured that the right leveling, grading, topsoil, and cultivating materials will be being used to ensure the best quality lawn money can buy.   Sod will give you that instant beauty that everyone dreams about on a warm sunny spring day.  We will guarantee that with proper care and maintenance including proper watering and fertilization, your seed lawn will look just like that sod lawn in one full year.  So whether the determining factor is time or money, we have the right lawn for you.  If you have tried growing a good lawn before and failed, give us a chance to lead you in the right direction.

Irrigation One of the most important elements to a beautiful looking and well maintained property is H2O.  Imagine not drinking for two days.  You might not feel so well or maybe a little dehydrated right?  Don’t you think your lawn and/or new plants deserve to have the right amount of hydration to thrive and look fabulous on your property?  We do it all from openings, closings, and repairs of your existing system to the installation of a brand new complete system.  Let our licensed, trained and knowledgeable staff make sure your irrigation system is protecting your investment.  Why have just an irrigation specialist perform your irrigation needs when you really need trained professionals who aren’t just plumbers, they are Landscape designers and install specialists who truly understand the needs of your turf, and plants.  All watering specifications are not the same, which requires each property to need a unique plan.  Our specialists take time to learn about your property.  Through careful studying of your geographical location, soil conditions, water pressure, heads per zone, amount of sunlight, slope of property and numerous other extraneous factors, the optimal water levels will be achieved.  Do you get sick and tired of having to deal with two companies, not knowing which one is right?  How about two sets of paper work and bills? Eliminate the hassle and let us do what we are trained to do best-- keep your lawn and plants looking the best they can be.

Drainage

Damp basements and wet properties on Long Island are as common as death and taxes.    Have one of our specialists come identify the problem and determine the appropriate drainage solution to alleviate or eliminate your wet areas.  Often soggy areas can be reduced by adjusting the pitch of an area in conjunction with running some underground piping to a box or drywell. Some other common resolutions are redirection of downspouts, installing a drain in a basement window well, and installing emitters to disperse water.  If basements are your concern, let us re-pitch the planting areas around your house and stucco the foundation to prevent water from entering cracks. If there is a basement water problem that is out of our realm, we can happily refer you to a competent waterproofing company who specializes in making sure your house stays dry.  Don’t say it’s impossible or too expensive until you give it a try.   Sometimes what looks impossible is as simple as 1-2-3, when the right people are on the job.

Driveway Sealing

What is asphalt?  Nothing more than 3/8’s gravel and tar.  In our harsh climate it is very important to properly protect your investment from the rain, wind, sleet, hale, snow, sun and extreme cold temperatures.  We recommend you seal your driveway every 1 to 2 years to keep the elements out.  We only use the finest quality Velvetop driveway sealer, not the watered down premixed “spray on” tar in large truck containers others in the industry use.  We use hand rollers for a thicker more even application, with a neat and clean look guaranteed every time.  Never again will you have to worry about coming home to stains on your Belgium block, interlocking pavers or other prized possessions.  Before the sealing process begins, our staff will take the necessary time in making sure the area is clean and no potentially problematic cracks or holes exist.  We also offer other types of sealing, cleaning and sanding for your interlocking pavers and cement work, be sure to inquire with your representative.

Holiday Decorating Does driving during the holiday season while doing your shopping and seeing all of the beautiful light displays remind you of just how late you are to get up on that ladder in the cold winter wind to put up your own decorations?  Do you wish you had someone who would put them up for you the way you envision and not charge a small fortune doing so?  Let Basics Landscaping do so for a set hourly fee, which includes the labor and the tools to do so. When the holiday fun is over and the lights need to come down, we return and box them up and even put them on the shelf if you want.  We will use your boxes or new ones to make sure everything is nicely packed away and labeled for the following year.  If this is your first holiday lighting decorating experience or if you want to add a new look to your house, our design staff can suggest the newest in decorations and lighting or you can come down to our retail location to pick them out yourself.  Best of all, if we deliver them when we come to install the job and you automatically get a 10% discount on all your store decorating purchases with the install.  No more “If one goes out they all go out” and fighting with your lights.  Now after a hard day’s work just pull up to a holiday winter wonderland.  Make your holiday even easier and come down and pick out your wreath and Christmas tree shipped fresh from Canada and have us deliver it free of charge when we come to set up your holiday display.  To find out about the amazing value and benefit of our services, call and set up your free consultation today.

Snow Removal

Do you have a bad back? Do you hate the cold? Does your spouse constantly nag you? If your answer was yes to any one of those three questions, then there is a good chance you can benefit from our snow removal services.  Let us explain how.  Send an e-mail or pick up the phone and call our office and the process begins.  For those of you who already have experienced some of our services or products already know the quality and customer service you have come to expect.  Our full-time staff is always on hand to provide you with prompt 24-hour snow removal.  That means whether a small driveway or a huge parking lot, the same people dedicated to making your property look good when the sun is out, will protect it when the snow is piling up.  We have trained professionals to remove your snow by hand or snow blower for those of you concerned about heavy equipment, we also have a full line of equipment to remove the largest blizzard from that “ball field” of a commercial parking lot.  We have many crews each with a foreman and assistant foremen set in a specific 5-mile radius for quick efficient snow removal.  We offer clearing of walkways and applications of calcium chloride to reduce the damage to your cement, asphalt and interlocking pavers; salt-sand for those really icy large commercial parking lots, and special pay-loader equipment for those storms in which the snow never seems to stop falling.  Stay warm, stay safe, and get to work on time clean and dry.  Let us clear your way!